I shipped 706 commits in 5 days with Taskwarrior + Claude Code

#productivity #agents #tooling #ai

Last week I merged 38 PRs across 5 repos. 706 commits. One person, max 5 Claude Code sessions at a time.

I'm sharing this because I think most CC users are hitting the same ceiling I was.

The ceiling

If you use Claude Code, you've probably tried scaling up to multiple sessions. Open a few terminals, give each one a task, and... immediately start context-switching between them. Which session just finished? What does this one need from that one? Are two sessions editing the same file?

The CC founder reportedly runs 10+ parallel sessions. The difference isn't superhuman multitasking. It's a system that eliminates the coordination overhead.

The stack

I call it TTAL — The Taskwarrior Agents Lab. Three tools:

Tool	Role
Taskwarrior	Task queue + event system
Zellij	Terminal session manager
Claude Code	The agent that does the work

Taskwarrior hooks spawn Zellij panes. Each pane runs a CC session with task context injected. When a session finishes, the next highest-urgency task auto-starts. You don't manage sessions. You manage tasks.

Mon: 199 commits — voice/ASR pipeline + agent heartbeat system
Tue: 182 commits — backend features + TUI contributions
Wed: 122 commits — infrastructure + documentation
Thu:  49 commits — rate-limited, did reviews instead
Fri: 154 commits — config consolidation + new features

Thursday is the tell — API rate limit hit, throughput dropped 75%. The system was the bottleneck, not me.

On-demand human-in-the-loop

This is the design principle that makes it click: agents never block waiting for me.

Most CC workflows are synchronous — you give a task, watch it work, review, give the next task. You are the bottleneck at every step.

In TTAL, agents pick up tasks, do the work, commit, and move on. I review PRs when I'm ready — not when the agent needs me. That's why 5 async sessions outperform 10 synchronous ones.

The full system is documented at ttal.guion.io. Architecture isn't locked to Claude Code — Zellij doesn't care what CLI agent runs inside the pane.

The bottleneck was never the AI. It was the glue.

Part 1 of the TTAL series. Follow along at ttal.guion.io.